{"id":26759,"date":"2017-04-13T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26759"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:40:16","slug":"aspiring-tech-prodigy-tries-re-route-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/aspiring-tech-prodigy-tries-re-route-self-driving-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring Tech Prodigy Tries to Re-Route Self-Driving Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Aspiring Tech Prodigy Tries to Re-Route Self-Driving Cars<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Austin Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system for robot-controlled cars. His ambitions are about to be tested.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Five years ago, Russell co-founded Luminar Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup trying to steer the rapidly expanding self-driving car industry in a new direction.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Luminar&#39;s work had been closely guarded until Thursday when the startup revealed the first details about a product that Russell is touting as a far more powerful form &quot;lidar,&quot; a laser-based sensing technology that allows self-driving cars to see what&#39;s around them.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">If the product lives up to his promise, Russell may have outsmarted Google, Uber and major automakers who have already been working on their own lidar systems.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2017\/04\/13\/business\/ap-us-self-driving-car-prodigy.html<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/aspiring-tech-prodigy-tries-re-route-self-driving-cars.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspiring Tech Prodigy Tries to Re-Route Self-Driving Cars Austin Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system for robot-controlled cars. His ambitions are about to be tested. 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